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Education

Number of Pre-University schools by level and type

Data from Jan 1999 to Jan 2023Updated 4 months ago

MOE (Ministry of Education)

Mixed Level schools comprise Primary & Secondary schools (P1-S4/5) and Secondary & Junior College schools (S1-JC2 or S3-JC2). Mixed Level schools are classified by type according to their secondary sections.

Data explorer

NumberofPreUniversityschoolsbylevelandtype.csv (95 rows, 3.5 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Level of school
Text
School type
Text
Number of pre university sch
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Junior College73.7%
Centralised Institute26.3%
(Null)0.0%
Government52.6%
Government-Aided26.3%
Independent21.1%
(Null)0.0%
015.8%
127.4%
422.1%
88.4%
1999Centralised InstituteGovernment2
1999Junior CollegeGovernment9
1999Junior CollegeGovernment-Aided5
1999Junior CollegeIndependent0
2000Centralised InstituteGovernment2
2000Junior CollegeGovernment10
2000Junior CollegeGovernment-Aided5
2000Junior CollegeIndependent0
2001Centralised InstituteGovernment2
2001Junior CollegeGovernment10

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Level of schoollevel_of_schoolText--
School typeschool_typeText--
Number of pre university schnumber_of_pre_university_schNumeric--

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
datasetId = "d_190a5d7d5a612705bf13bb4cc37fc34e"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sgsong_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

14 Jan 2019

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)

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